Re: Up in An Attic In August in Yuma Arizona

[Jim Davis <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 8:02:07 AM UTC-4, ABLE1 wrote:
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> In the northeast we also have very old houses.  With full finished
> attics, basement ceilings covered with drywall, crawl spaces that have
> little or no access with mud and rocks, walls built with REAL 2" x 4"=20
> studs, fire breaks between the wall framing studs that are never at the=
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> same level above the floor, full size additions that can't be reached=20
> without blasting with a "quarter-stick" or two.  Boom!!
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> Then there is new construction. Always wanted to be the last doing the
> rough-in.  Except you find out that the electrician forgot a piece of
> romex wire and decided to use your wire holes because it was easier than
> drilling new holes.  Or drilled through a stud into your wires, and made=
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> repairs by twisting the colors together and then taping with his black
> tape roll.  Or the Comcast guy that decided to use your pull string for
> his single RG6 Quad and didn't bother to put the string back, just left
> it on a pile with his cable.  I hope he reads this someday........soon.
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> Ahhh and so it goes, the trails and tribulations of the low voltage
> installer..................
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> Les

PLUMBERS!!!!!

I have a dream =E2=80=A6=E2=80=A6=E2=80=A6=E2=80=A6=E2=80=A6=E2=80=A6=E2=80=
=A6!!!

Now maybe it's just the luck of the draw for me but on more occasions than =
other trades =E2=80=A6=E2=80=A6 plumbers I find are the MOST inconsiderate.

Got to sweat a joint near the alarm wires??  NO PROBLEM! Just do it. The wi=
re insulation wont melt THAT much.

Got to run a pipe through a beam perpendicular to the main alarm wire run i=
n the basement. NO PROBLEM! Either stretch the wires out of the way until t=
hey break or there's no way to tell if they're broken under the insulation =
or not. Or just cut them, drill your hole and run your pipe.=20

"Because pipe is rigid and wire can be spliced a lot easier than rerouting =
pipe."

BUT =E2=80=A6=E2=80=A6 don't bother telling the GC, builder, homeowner. It =
can wait until the alarm guy comes back to do the final hookup to discover =
that he's got to add a length a wire between the two cut cable ends of 25 w=
ires to get around the PVC waste pipe that they forgot to run.

MY Dream ????

I can see myself running a single four wire along a beam in the basement an=
d low and behold I come to a 4 inch PVC waste pipe running perpendicular to=
 my wire run. So, I get out the ol hack saw, cut out a one foot section of =
the pipe and continue my nice straight wire run.=20

YEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!

I just remembered another event that REAAAALLY pissed me off.

Installed an alarm panel on a plywood wall board down in the basement and h=
ad system operational. Shortly after the job is completed, I get a service =
call that the alarm system has problems. I go to the job site, down in the =
basement and find that the telephone installation company needed space and =
my alarm panel "was in the way". They had dismounted the panel from the boa=
rd and hung it up by the wires on a nail above the wall board and mounted t=
he telephone KSU and all the telephone hardware taking up all the space on =
the wall board. I can't tell you how pissed off I was and was just about re=
ady to show the business owner what they had done and or call the company b=
ut =E2=80=A6=E2=80=A6=E2=80=A6=E2=80=A6 somehow my sinister sense took over=
 and I contained my rage. I told the owners that I knew what was wrong and =
would have to schedule more time to correct the  problem. I had to come bac=
k to put up a new wall board, extend all the wires going to the panel to re=
ach the new panel location. BUT, when I went home that first day, I went do=
wn to my grinding wheel and gathered a hand full of metal powder that gets =
captured in the grinding wheel protectors. When I returned to the job I bro=
ught the filings. I arranged to work late after the owners left and the las=
t thing I did before I left was to blow the iron powder on to the printed c=
ircuit boards in the KSU. I never said a word to the owner or anyone about =
what they had done. Even though the business owner had to suffer along with=
 them, the Telephone service people spent a small fortune troubleshooting t=
hat system for months and ultimately found out(Because I eventually found a=
n opportunity to ask the owners) "We got rid of them. We had continuous pro=
blems with them so we got someone else."=20
 (HE HE HE HEH HEH HEH HEH HA HA HAAH HAAH HAAAaaA) (evil laughter)

YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!